Cat Dandy [Kyōka]

cat on a porch rail
preens between naps
 to look good
for the twenty waking
 minutes of its day. 

PROMPT: Animals

What are your favorite animals?

All the non-human ones are pretty awesome, and even the humans can be tolerable in the proper dosage.

PROMPT: Pet

What is good about having a pet?

More time with animals and less time humans makes one more likely to retain sanity.

Christmas Cat [Haiku]

sitting on a wall,
 beside the potted poinsettias,
  a cat grooms itself. 

Go-Getter [Senryū]

when you’re the family 
go-getter, and yet you’re
a zoned-out mess.

Cambridge U. Limerick

When Lord Byron lived at Cambridge University,
he greatly increased campus diversity.
He lived with a bear.
They were quite the pair.
For the poet, the dog ban was a perversity.

Guard Dog [Senryū]

dog guards church
by being a trip-hazard...
and doing it well

Cat Conformity [Senryū]

the cat that conforms
to a hollow in the wall
won't conform elsewise

DAILY PHOTO: Primping Cat on a Rail

Taken in December of 2021 in Darjeeling